guant

From Frankish *want, from whence also French gant, Italian guanto, Dutch want, German Low German wante; from Proto-Germanic *wantuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú- (“glove”), from *wendʰ- (“to wind, wrap”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɡwan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡwant]

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guant m (plural guants)

1. glove (clothing)

• “guant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “guant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “guant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “guant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Frankish *want, from whence also French gant, Italian guanto, Dutch want, German Low German wante; from Proto-Germanic *wantuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú- (“glove”), from *wendʰ- (“to wind, wrap”).

guant f (plural guanc)

1. (gherdëina, badiot, fascian) dress, gown, clothes

   Cumpré n guant.

   To buy a dress.

• Unlike related Romance languages such as Catalan, French or Italian, the word guant does not mean glove in Ladin, the word for which is manëcia.

• gant
• gaunt (late Anglo-Norman)

From Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú- (“glove”), from *wendʰ- (“to wind, wrap”).

guant oblique singular, m (oblique plural guanz or guantz, nominative singular guanz or guantz, nominative plural guant)

1. glove (clothing)

• French: gant
  • → Greek: γάντι (gánti)

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaŋt/

guant m

1. glove